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How do I prevent field codes from displaying on merging?
I assist in developing a Case Management system for a law firm. We have over
4000 precedent documents and have recently moved over to using Word Automation to produce the documents. Since using Word Automation, users are finding that their documents merge displaying all the field codes and they have to ALT+F9 to hide the codes (unfortunately many users don't know this key combination). We don't want to remove the field codes so CTRL+SHIFT+F9 or something similar isn't a solution. I was informed by the company that support our Case Management system that this is caused by the field codes being displayed when the precedent document was last saved. However, I have tested this and when field codes were revealed in the precedent, my test document merged fine without showing field codes. This appears to be rather intermittent - anyone have any ideas on a) what causes this and b) how I can stop it? Many thanks -- Helbel78 |
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How do I prevent field codes from displaying on merging?
You could add something to the end of your automation macros to turn off
display of fields. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "helbel78" wrote in message ... I assist in developing a Case Management system for a law firm. We have over 4000 precedent documents and have recently moved over to using Word Automation to produce the documents. Since using Word Automation, users are finding that their documents merge displaying all the field codes and they have to ALT+F9 to hide the codes (unfortunately many users don't know this key combination). We don't want to remove the field codes so CTRL+SHIFT+F9 or something similar isn't a solution. I was informed by the company that support our Case Management system that this is caused by the field codes being displayed when the precedent document was last saved. However, I have tested this and when field codes were revealed in the precedent, my test document merged fine without showing field codes. This appears to be rather intermittent - anyone have any ideas on a) what causes this and b) how I can stop it? Many thanks -- Helbel78 |
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